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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Too many cooks... :crazyeyes
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    SkiveSkive Posts: 15,283 Skive's The Limit
    Getting the bums rush.
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    SkiveSkive Posts: 15,283 Skive's The Limit
    Getting your goat.
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    SkiveSkive Posts: 15,283 Skive's The Limit
    Happy as a pig in shit.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Miffy wrote:
    Worse things happen at sea. (Wartime saying and one of my Nan's favourites.)

    I say that a lot.

    My Dad says "Shit in your hat and punch it", but that might just be him being a little strange.
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    BunnieBunnie Posts: 6,099 Master Poster
    :p ...the wind will change and you'll stick like that!!
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    SkiveSkive Posts: 15,283 Skive's The Limit
    'He's like a tramps underpants, always on the bum'

    ...about anybody who's skint.
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    BunnieBunnie Posts: 6,099 Master Poster
    Skive wrote:
    'He's like a tramps underpants, always on the bum'

    ...about anybody who's skint.
    :lol:
    never heard that one!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Skive wrote:
    I done that one already.

    Woops sorry.

    The right hand dos'ent know whats the left hand's doing.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    break a leg......

    and

    curosity killed the cat? - i think thats right, i dunno
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ...but popularity brought it back

    I'm not sure how that works but my mum used to say it quite a bit!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Cat got your tongue. OUCH!!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    dont look a gift horse in the mouth while its showing you its teeth?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Grrrrrrrr!! Ecil Horse!!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Mutton dressed as lamb!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    "you could cut steel with those nipples.."
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    you're jumping about like a cat on a hot tin roof

    you're like a bee in a bottle

    the driveway doesn't quite reach the house

    he's a couple cans short of a 6pack


    ....oh i could go on and on and on lol
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Bee in your bonnet. Busy as a bee. Anymore bee ones?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Sandwich short of a full picnic
    Lights are on but nobody's home
    etc
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    not the sharpest tool in the shed
    not the brightest crayon in the box
    the elevator doesn't reach the top floor
    sharp as a marble
    dumb as a doorknob
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    my_name wrote:
    not the sharpest tool in the shed
    not the brightest crayon in the box
    the elevator doesn't reach the top floor
    sharp as a marble
    dumb as a doorknob

    A sandwich short of a picnic
    A screw short of a tool box
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Cant make a silk purse out of a sows ear.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    well, you know what thought did.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    champagne tastes with sherbet income.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Curiosity killed the cat.
    Where there's smoke, there's fire.
    Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    thats hit the nail on the head.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    She can talk the hind leg off a donkey
    Stubborn as a mule
    Rome wasn't built in a day
    When in Rome, do as the Romans do
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    SkiveSkive Posts: 15,283 Skive's The Limit
    Hey is for horses not for people.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    horses for courses??
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Don't say but say butter.

    No idea where that came from but my mum and dad used to say it to me years ago, every time I tried to say 'but', and it used to really upset me!
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